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2018: Portals to the Collective Mind

This paper sets the scene for a workshop that I and the three Pioneer Practitioners of the P6 Constellation delivered at the EMCC 2018 conference in Amsterdam. In it I explore what we mean by evidence-based practice and research-based evidence… [Portals to the Collective Mind – EMCC 2018-04-10]

2017: The Game of Life ~ dancing with emergence
It has been a while – nearly three years – since I last sent a newsletter. So, what have I been up to? A PhD in dancing with emergence! What on earth is that and how does it sit with good-old-fashioned, evidence-based practice? Well… my PhD does and doesn’t quite sit in that paradigm… more crucially, it does have its place where there are people, being people, trying to survive and thrive amidst the struggles of life, relationships, work, wars, abuse, traumas, global complexities or even the miniscule daily frustrations that arise when the world and other people are not how we think they ‘should be’! This is what links my research, not only to my life and practice, but to the lives of others. Find out more about dancing with emergence… [download pdf]

2016: Safeguarding my own Trustworthiness
This article is a personal illumination and a mutual exploration involving Louie and the reader. She offers new and different ways of seeing and understanding ‘trust-making’ and ‘trustworthiness’ which are founded in her experiences of facilitating and engaging in group learning. [download pdf]

2015: Completion of REAL
This article by Francis Evans, MB of IofC-UK, and short video offer a snapshot of a learning journey that began in 2010 for 12 REAL participants from Initiatives of Change in the UK. Louie accompanied each person over a 12-month period supporting them to re-connect, heal and regenerate their relationships with themselves, others and with IofC. [download pdf]

2014-10: Changing the Game of Change-making
The P6 Constellation is a methodology that sets conditions for transformational change in human systems – individuals, groups, organisations. This article describes the P6 Constellation and how it came into being. [download pdf]

2014-09: The Sweet Bitter of No
Louie reflects on the outcome of the Scottish Referendum on 18 Sept 2014 and poses some provocative questions about ‘now what?’ [download pdf]

2014-06: IofC – long-term change-making across time and place (Chapter updated post-REAL, 2015)
This chapter by Louie in The Collaboratory (Katrin Muff, 2014) , explores the systemic conditions that appear to have supported the emergent evolution of Initiatives of Change (IofC), a global fellowship that has endured over some eighty years. Each year members converge in Caux, high above Montreux in Switzerland to catalyse dialogue and inspire action to address issues affecting people in communities across the world. The chapter offers insights into how IofC creates and holds a community space; and integrates the spirit and practice of “quiet time” into a community-building process enabling transformation at personal, group and systemic levels. [download pdf]

2014-05: Scottish Referendum – complexity perspectives
Louie writes: “In agreeing to write this article, I am psychologically and soulfully stepping into the conversation on the Scottish Referendum. Practically I am already in. I live in Scotland by choice. It is my home…” [download pdf]

2014-04: IofC Seed Behaviours
These Seed Behaviours express what people in IofC do when we are at our best. The behaviours are aspirational and inspirational – and as such, are challenging. The following descriptions are written in first person as it is for each of us to take these on as our own. This document was honed and agreed by those participating in the first REAL programme in IofC-UK. [download pdf]

2013: Adaptive Capacity
In this article first published in Coaching Today April 2013 Diane Parker comments: “This theme of adapting in relationship with other is further echoed in Louie Gardiner’s fascinating piece on human systems dynamics, as she uses her own experience of writing her article to demonstrate complex adaptive systems in action.” [download pdf]

Papers from past projects

Check out Partners & Projects where you can find downloadable pdfs to give you a flavour of the range of work we have undertaken.

Prezis, presentations, poems & more

Soon we will be sharing material that moves beyond the formal written word. Using graphics, multi-media formats and unconventional means, we hope to offer you new ways of accessing and understanding what we offer.